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Westminster, Texas

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Blue Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75409. It stands on Elm Grove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blue Ridge quadrangle. 1,035 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Westminster within Collin County

Population over time

2 figures

Westminster grew from 861 to 1,035 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010861
20201,035+174 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

128 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Westminster between 2005 and 2020, burning about 1,863 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Debris and open burning46
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2009Arson/incendiarism25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1142 N BUS 78 FIRE
7 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service1135 N BUS 78 FIRE
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Service12080853
21 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCR 478 FIRE
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service3133 FIRE
15 September 2012Debris and open burning25 acresTexas A & M Forest Service12078528
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceGLENWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Collin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westminster in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWestminster$15,000Power lines were blown down and outbuildings were damaged in Allen due to high winds.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWestminster$10,000A public report indicated that a house received significant roof damage from thunderstorm winds near the intersection of North Star Drive and Gracebridge, about halfway between Anna and Gunter.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindWestminster-Social media photos showed several trees blown down on Amen Corner off County Road 179 midway between Van Alstyne and Gunter.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindWestminster-Emergency management reported that a downed tree blocked the road near the intersection of FM 455 and County Road 828 in Weston.
June 2007HailWestminster-no account filed
February 2005HailWestminster-no account filed
May 1995HailWestminster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Collin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sedalia2.5 miles7
Desert3.6 miles7
Anna4.7 miles8
Valdasta4.8 miles7
Chambliss5.0 miles7
Blue Ridge5.5 miles7
Frognot6.8 miles7
Fayburg7.5 miles7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WestminsterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q974920The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1388222. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.